Improvement in oil-cans and oilers



UNITED STATES PATENT OEFTCE.

JAMES E. WEAVER, OF TEMPERANCEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

1/ IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CANS AND OILERS.

VSpecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5S. l57, dated September I8, 1866.

To allwhom it may concern:

Bc it known that I, JAMES E. WEAVER, of

'Temperanceville, in the county of Allegheny `and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil-Cans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being sents a longitudinal section of my improved oil-can, a represents the body of the can. b b represents the conductor, which is screwed" to the body a by a screw on the end of the conductor and a female screw in the mouth of the can,the arrangement of which is clearly shown at the point marked e. The body of the can is divided into two parts by the divisionpiece marked d.

c represents a tube, which is connected to the body of the can, and communicates with air-chamber R. To this tube c I connect a hollow wooden rod, furnished with a mouth-piece, so that I can blow air into the air-chamber It, when I desire to oil journals not Within reach of the operator.

The tube b b is made in two sections, so as to form a straight or curved conductor, as may be desired.

freprescnts the ordinary handle of the can.

Oil is forced out at or through the conductor b b by forcing air `through tube c into chamber It. This is only done when oiling journals not Within the ordinary reach of the operator. Oil is put in the can in the usual manner. 1

The arrangement of the division (l and tube c, when used in connection with the body a and conductor b b', as herein described and set brth.

JAMES E. WEAVER.

.W itnesses;

JAMES J. J oHNsToN, A. C. JOHNSTON. 

